Ge healthcare investigation has been completed.The issue occurred at the fixation between flange (area around the screw hole where the screw's head sits) and bearing of spring arm.There was a deformation of the flange drill hole material that holds up the entire monitor suspension.The suspension supporting the monitors is designed and manufactured by (b)(4).Ge healthcare notified (b)(4) about this issue on october 23, 2015.(b)(4) investigation concluded that the flange drill holes were drilled too deep during production at a (b)(4) sub-supplier.The measured thickness of flange of the affected device was between 0.5 mm to 1.0 mm in all holes, instead of a minimum of 3 mm per specifications.It was determined that this part was manufactured with non-numeric drill machining with manual adjustment setup between 2005 and 2008.In 2008 the manufacturer changed to numeric machining with a control plan for each batch including measurement of the thickness dimension.This site will be corrected by the replacement of the monitor suspension.A field action was initiated to correct all the impacted sites (report number 9611343-12/30/15-003-c, ge healthcare reference fmi 12239, reported to fda on 12/30/2015).
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